The Johnson City
Community Concert Band was founded in September 1983 by members of the faculty of East Tennessee State University. Its purpose was to provide an opportunity for musicians to play on a
voluntary, avocational basis, especially those who might have stopped playing after high school or college and did not have ready access to other playing opportunities.

For the first few
years of its life, JCCCB was financially supported by the Johnson City/Washington County Chamber of Commerce, and was assisted by ETSU, which provided rehearsal space and lent it music, as well as
the direct participation of music faculty for a long period. The band has averaged between four and eight concerts per year throughout its thirty year lifespan, all of them free, and has
focused many of those performances on specialized audiences such as senior citizens, veterans, school children, and ceremonial occasions throughout the Tri-Cities area.

Presently, the
band’s membership includes approximately sixty musicians from essentially all walks of life, ranging from professional musicians to physicians, attorneys, dentists, school teachers, and various other
occupations, as well as the occasional college and/or high school music student. The band offers a very low-key, amiable rehearsal environment, and, with membership turnover being relatively
small, has gradually formed bonds among the members which are somewhat familial in nature.

Currently, the band rehearses on
Monday nights at the Indian Trial Intermediate School at 7:15 p.m.

OUR CONDUCTOR

Dr. Christian Zembower is Director of Bands and associate professor of music at East Tennessee State University. His duties include conducting the Wind Ensemble, Concert Band and Chamber
Winds, teaches beginning and advanced conducting, band literature, instrumental music education methods courses, and leads all aspects concerning the ETSU Bands program. Over the last year,
with the re-implementation of football on campus, he has developed and coordinated the plans and preparation of redeveloping the marching band at ETSU, and the hiring of an additional director
position. Prior to his appointment in May, 2006 at ETSU, Dr. Zembower served for eight years as the assistant director of bands at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. From 1996 to
1998, he served on the faculty as a doctoral graduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi, and was Director of Bands at Musselman High School in Inwood, West Virginia from 1992 through
1996.

Dr. Zembower holds a Doctorate in Music Education (emphasis in wind band) from the University of Southern Mississippi, a Master of Arts degree in Music Education from Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Frostburg State University (MD). An active clinician and conductor, he has adjudicated and/or guest
conducted middle school and high school honor bands throughout the mid-Atlantic and mid-western regions of the United States. In April, 2010, Dr. Zembower was honored as a recipient of a
Distinguished Teaching Award in the College of Arts and Sciences at ETSU.